Hey Jason, thanks for the review! I’ve tried to answer some of the points raised in your video: On age statements, we can talk about the youngest whisky in the blend, which is measured in years, allowing us to disclose the information of everything in that youngest year. For example, everything between 4 years exactly, and 4 year and 11 months. On barley varieties, all of the barley used in this production will have come from our original maltster, who unfortunately did not separate barley by farm of variety for us. This will be a combination of Laureate, Chronicle, Belgravia & Concerto from up to 10 organic Scottish farms. We have since changed malt supplier, and now record spirit with barley and farm details. This information will be on the batch pages when the spirit comes of age and is in bottles. Fermentation times at Nc’nean are currently all the same, so it will be a combination 40% 68hr, and 60% 114hr. This is what we produce every week, and this spirit is blended together before casking. I’ll ask the team about adding this information to the batch pages for you. Apologies on the lack of website information on the sherry casks in this release, just an oversight. I used 2 x 500L ex-Oloroso Sherry Butts, and the team are updating the site to include this information now. And sorry the whisky wasn’t to your taste! Obviously it was designed for Gordon, who really enjoys depth of fruit and richness, and has polar opposite tastes to Annabel and Lorna. But that’s the joy of this series for me, each release is a true reflection of the tastes and personalities of the people that made it. And I’m more than happy to discuss price points, there’s obviously a lot of factors at play here but fundamentally our production approach is one of sustainability and longevity, so we’ve taken a lot of decision that greatly increase our relative production costs compared to the rest of the industry. Organic farming in Scotland, inefficient yeast strains for flavour over yield, tighter cut points, premium casks, recycled glass bottles, on-site bottling securing local jobs and building community on Morvern, and a whole myriad of other things. These choices are what we feel is right for the industry and its future, and this is reflected in the price of our whisky. On the batch codes, we switched from the numerical batch numbers when we tweaked the recipe of our flagship expression. We did this for a number of internal reasons, but the new system is a two letter and two number code that is a secret reference/competition, specifically for enthusiasts like yourself. Whoever can first tell us what the letters and numbers are in reference to, we’ll gift them a cask of whisky. It’s a piece of information we normally only share at live tastings (including our latest TH-cam live video) or in person. Sorry it’s not immediately intuitive! All the best (and apologies for the exceptionally long comment!) Matt - The Blender @ Nc’nean
Thanks for all the additional information. I think what NcNean is doing to great, but I still think the secret code is not helpful and confusing However - I did like the CS th-cam.com/video/iRLu5V4ppbc/w-d-xo.html
Hey Jason, thanks for the review! I’ve tried to answer some of the points raised in your video:
On age statements, we can talk about the youngest whisky in the blend, which is measured in years, allowing us to disclose the information of everything in that youngest year. For example, everything between 4 years exactly, and 4 year and 11 months.
On barley varieties, all of the barley used in this production will have come from our original maltster, who unfortunately did not separate barley by farm of variety for us. This will be a combination of Laureate, Chronicle, Belgravia & Concerto from up to 10 organic Scottish farms. We have since changed malt supplier, and now record spirit with barley and farm details. This information will be on the batch pages when the spirit comes of age and is in bottles.
Fermentation times at Nc’nean are currently all the same, so it will be a combination 40% 68hr, and 60% 114hr. This is what we produce every week, and this spirit is blended together before casking. I’ll ask the team about adding this information to the batch pages for you.
Apologies on the lack of website information on the sherry casks in this release, just an oversight. I used 2 x 500L ex-Oloroso Sherry Butts, and the team are updating the site to include this information now.
And sorry the whisky wasn’t to your taste! Obviously it was designed for Gordon, who really enjoys depth of fruit and richness, and has polar opposite tastes to Annabel and Lorna. But that’s the joy of this series for me, each release is a true reflection of the tastes and personalities of the people that made it. And I’m more than happy to discuss price points, there’s obviously a lot of factors at play here but fundamentally our production approach is one of sustainability and longevity, so we’ve taken a lot of decision that greatly increase our relative production costs compared to the rest of the industry. Organic farming in Scotland, inefficient yeast strains for flavour over yield, tighter cut points, premium casks, recycled glass bottles, on-site bottling securing local jobs and building community on Morvern, and a whole myriad of other things. These choices are what we feel is right for the industry and its future, and this is reflected in the price of our whisky.
On the batch codes, we switched from the numerical batch numbers when we tweaked the recipe of our flagship expression. We did this for a number of internal reasons, but the new system is a two letter and two number code that is a secret reference/competition, specifically for enthusiasts like yourself. Whoever can first tell us what the letters and numbers are in reference to, we’ll gift them a cask of whisky. It’s a piece of information we normally only share at live tastings (including our latest TH-cam live video) or in person. Sorry it’s not immediately intuitive!
All the best (and apologies for the exceptionally long comment!)
Matt - The Blender @ Nc’nean
Thanks for all the additional information. I think what NcNean is doing to great, but I still think the secret code is not helpful and confusing
However - I did like the CS
th-cam.com/video/iRLu5V4ppbc/w-d-xo.html
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Thanks!